Sound Off: Friday, February 21, 2014

I’d like to say thank you to the people who helped me in the snow a couple weeks ago. Three men on MacDade Boulevard were kind enough to push my car into a Wawa parking lot. I couldn’t get my car jumped, but fortunately some gentlemen from the Marines Corps were there who helped push the car all the way back to my house. I was in awe of how kind everyone was.

DIANE

COOL CHARACTERS

Thanks to the folks at Oliver Heating, especially Joe the salesman and Jesse who did my attic. I wouldn’t have made it through the winter if it wasn’t for their help.

VERY WARM NOW

CLUELESS CHRISTINE

I saw last Sunday Christine Flowers said that Reagan and Sonny Bono had more going for them than being actors when they ran for political office. I don’t know where she got this idea from because I didn’t see any intelligence in either of them. Reagan got elected twice by portraying himself as a friendly, grandfatherly type guy. How Sonny Bono got into Congress I’ll never know.

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HOW CORPORATIONS WIN

“A Lesson For Liberals” is right – corporations do create jobs. The problem is they create them overseas and pay those people $2 a day instead of creating the jobs here and paying people a decent, living wage.

SMOOTH MOVES BY OBAMA

I was rewatching Bill O’Reilly’s interview with President Obama from Super Bowl Sunday and something hit me – the president missed his true calling as a professional dancer. The expert way he moved around every issue O’Reilly brought up was impeccable. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson – Obama could have been up there with all of them.

IT WAS A MIRACLE

I see the guys on the U.S. National Hockey Team are getting tired of the “Miracle on Ice” being brought up. I don’t think young people today in this world of sponsorship for everything involving sports can really grasp what happened in 1980. That was a true amateur team that beat the biggest hockey powerhouse in the world.

SHOVEL IT

To “Plowed Under In Briafcliffe,” you must be a newbie, because the old Briarfcliffe residents know the drill. If the plow trucks plowed the snow towards the street, the locals would have no place to drive. I suggest shoveling, and don’t put any chairs in your spot. They’re for your neighbors, too.

EX-BRIARCLIFFE RESIDENT

RYAN WHO?

Can everyone give it a break with Ryan Howard? If you didn’t know any better you’d think he was the only guy on the Phillies’ roster.

MR. DELCO 1952

STAY AT HOME, THEN

I agree with “There Goes The Paycheck.” I took my kids to see the Phantoms when they were back in town a couple weeks ago. A slice of pizza and a soda was $10 and a beer was $11. This was after paying either $15 or $20 for parking. It’s ridiculous.

FIRST SIGN OF ROT

After the last wave of snow, my apartment building’s parking lot looked like the Alaskan wilderness. I saw the same conditions in other buildings owned by the same company. If they can’t get the parking lots paved I wonder what else might be going on.

SPIRIT IN THE SNOW

It was nice to see the light display on Morgan Avenue in Drexel Hill being up through Valentine’s Day. With all the bad weather it’s good to see some festival spirit.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Democrats constantly bombard us with ideas to expand government. Rarely do they mention the touchy subject of who’s going to pay the cost. They make fancy promises, but too often they hide the expense and fail to acknowledge the inflated bureaucracy that puts more power into the hands of people who don’t share the values of working Americans.

The stories of waste and inefficiency in Washington are far too numerous to count.

SPIRIT OF LIBERTY

HOLES IN THEIR HEADS

I understand that we have a bad pothole problem right now due to the weather we’ve had, but this would be a little better if we didn’t have these inlaid manholes to contend with, too. What happened to constructing manholes that are flush with the roadway? It’s like having mini potholes on the road.